CSC 425 Information Security (3)

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Prerequisite: CSC 202 and CSC 340
A course giving a broad overview of principles of information security as an art, science, and social science. Students completing this course will be able to define information security, point to its major historical milestones, and justify the need for security through examples of business needs, threats, and attacks. The course will discuss legal, ethical, and professional issues as they pertain to information security, as well as risk identification, assessment, and control. Guidelines for security planning will be presented as well as related computer technology such as firewalls, VPN’s, intrusion detection, access control, and other security tools.